Fabulous cultural Oaxacan experience - Loved going to the local market to buy the food we were going to prepare. - such a great cultural experience. Minerva and her girls were real experts and we learned so much !

A unique unforgettable experience - Minerva and her family were absolutely amazing, an experience I highly recommend to friends and family members. We met by the church and socialized while others joined. The market was a stimulating experience take money if you want to buy things for you. Minerva takes you to the best places and her reputation is know as vendors welcome her and her group. The cooking experience…. Very hands on your cooking, eating and learning so much. We left with an full belly and a happy heart to be welcomed in and given exceptional hospitality. ❤️ One part that is extraordinary is the diversity in people visiting. Minerva’s cooking class is a highly desired experience globally.

Wonderful traditional Oaxaca cooking school - The day we spent with Minerva was the highlight of our trip to Oaxaca. It was incredible to learn first hand by actually doing the work the traditional way to make mole negra. The day started meeting at the cathedral with Minerva and our wonderful translator Liz, we then took a comfortable minibus to the largest food market in Oaxaca that you would never get to go to without a local. We shopped for the fresh ingredients for the mole and Minerva took us on a tour of vendors and explained the differences of the different chillies, we tasted food cheese, mangos so ripe they melted in the mouth and grasshoppers in lime and spice. We then went back to her beautiful garden outdoor kitchen in a lovely courtyard and enjoyed a traditional hot chocolate to get us ready to cook. We learned ever step of cooking the mole from toasting the chillies. Creating the ash from the stems and seeds for the color. Frying the plantain for the dish and finally putting it all together for a wonderful family style meal with cold beer, wonderful mezcal cocktails and hybiscus tea It was one of the best days i have spent

Delicious fun - Wonderful woman and teacher. Experience the market with her then to her beautiful home to make delicious mole from scratch with produce she bought with us. Relaxing and enjoyable hands on experience.

Highly recommended cooking classes in Oaxaca - An excellent experienced. Highly recommended. We met some lovely people and were taught authentic regional cooking. I learnt a-lot.

Highly Recommend this! - We loved this whole experience! Shopping at a Mercado utilized mostly by local, then transported to Minerva’s beautiful outdoor kitchen area, getting to know our fellow travelers who also enjoy cooking was all wonder. We were actively involved, the food was delicious, as was the mezcal cocktail. Sandy translates to English and Minerva’s daughters also provided some assistance. Highly recommend!

Minerva and her team were... - Minerva and her team were very kind and explained everything very well. My daughter and I learned a lot. It was an amazing experience. Her daughter Evelyn was her translator. She did a great job. Memories will be cherished. Amazing food!

Excellent class - The class was very interesting, the trip to the market was very fun. The lady and her entire family were very kind to all of us.

Amazing cooking experience - Amazing day, started with a tour of the local market getting ingredients and then went to Minervas house where we learned how to cook some traditional dishes from scratch. Dishes I can’t wait to cook when back at home. Tour guides were excellent. Just myself and my wife on the class so was very personal.

An Average Cooking Class - I've done lots of cooking classes around the world, including 2 in Oaxaca. Compared to all the other classes I've done, this one is about average. Not bad but also not great either. Just ok. It is one of the more expensive classes in Oaxaca, so I was expecting it to be better than it was. My friend and I chose this class because of Minerva--the description made it sound like she was this warm and friendly person who made you feel like part of her family (not literally) and would enthusiastically teach us about the food of Oaxaca. Instead, I found her to be rather cold, distant, and unenthusiastic. She rarely interacted with us. The tour started with meeting the interpreter at a tour agency near the Zocalo. The instructions on where to meet were rather confusing. I thought we were supposed to meet in front of the Cathedral. There were only 3 of us in the cooking class. We then took a van to Abastos Market, where we met Minerva. We walked around the market while Minerva bought ingredients. Sometimes Minerva would point out things in the market and we would ask questions. But overall, she rarely spoke to us during the market visit. After that, we went to Minerva's house in a village outside of Oaxaca City. The cooking school was very nice--lovely decorations and very colorful. I loved that it was outside. We tried some hot chocolate and bread, which were both very good. Then we started cooking. We cooked only one dish--mole estofado--all together. Each person did a bit of the whole process. For example, one person stirred the pot, another chopped the vegetables, and so on. In all the cooking classes I've done, each person made their own dish. I was disappointed that we couldn't each make our own dish, but I've found that the way we did it at Minerva's is typical for cooking classes in Oaxaca. Minerva was actually training another person to be a cooking teacher during our class. She rarely interacted with us. The description of the course said that we would be making tortillas. At first, Minerva wasn't going to have us make tortillas but then one person in the group asked about it, so then I guess they felt like they needed to teach us how to make tortillas. It was rather odd. After we cooked the food, the students and interpreter and another student from another cooking class sat down to eat together. Minerva did not eat with us. The dish we made was good but not out-of-this-world. Overall, the cooking class was just average.